• Check if you have svn and svnserver commands.

          whereis svn
          whereis svnserve

• Create directory for SVN repositories. (e.g. mkdir /svn)
• Initialize the svn repositories.

          svnadmin create /svn

• Edit the /svn/svnserve.conf file and add these lines

          [general]
          anon-access = read
          user-access=write
          password-db = passwd

• Edit passwd file add these lines

          [users]
          user = password

• Start the server using 

       svnserve -d -r /svn –listening-port 3690 –listening-host YOUR_IP_ADDRESS

Now, you can access SVN from svn://YOUR_IP_ADDRESS:3690/svn  and username (user) and password (password). Use any tool like tortoise SVN or Subclipse (Eclipse plugin).

caution: Make sure you don’t have any spaces before the [general] and [users] in the respective files.